Police were called to Garfield Avenue near Armstrong Avenue at 2:52 p.m. on a report that a man was locked in the bathroom and his girlfriend was hitting the door with a hammer, reports said.

When police arrived, the 49-year-old boyfriend, was still locked in the bathroom, reports said. After a brief struggle, police were able to detain Duran, reports said. When he came out he told police that Duran was mad at him and attacked him with a hammer, reports said.

The victim said that he was undressing to get in the shower while talking to his girlfriend about getting her eyebrows done, when she asked for him to pay for doing her laundry, reports said.

He responded that he didn't have money to pay for her laundry, reports said.
He said she became irate and began to scream, reports said.

Then he heard breaking glass, and went to the bedroom where she smashed a mirror in his bedroom and then put several holes in the screen of the television set with a hammer, reports said.

When he pleaded with her to stop breaking his possessions, she turned and charged at him saying, “I'm going to hit you in the head with the hammer,” reports said.

At that point he fled to the bathroom and called police on his cell phone, reports said. The hammer was recovered from an open kitchen cabinet, reports said.